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Growth of NICS ‘Mental Defectives’ Index Category

The National Instant Check System, NICS, started operation in 1998. The first numbers that I found available for ‘mental defectives’ were contained in an annual report listing numbers available at the end of 2000. The first 89 thousand people on the list were submitted by the Veterans Administration. In the next report, at the end of 2002, about another 60 thousand individuals had been added from state data bases. In 2004, NICS listed the ‘mental defective’ definition as this . . . Mental Defectives/Commitments – Persons who have been adjudicated as a mental defective or have been involuntarily committed to a mental institution or have been deemed incompetent to handle their own affairs. (This definition…

It Should Have Been A Defensive Gun Use: Just Your Average Home Invasion Edition

When I search for material for our It Should Have Been a Defensive Gun Use posts I usually select stories where defenseless Americans are brutalized by armed thugs of one stripe or another. But this story at abc22now.com caught my eye because it seems so mundane. No one was injured. And yet . . . Well, see for yourself . . . DAYTON — A family was awakened early Saturday morning to the sound of intruders in their Harvard Boulevard home. According to Dayton police, a 911 caller said two males gained entry through a bathroom window just after midnight Jan. 2, 2016, and forced the family — including a husband, wife and two grandchildren — out of their beds and into the living room while they went through…

Jeb! Bush Misremembers Story About NRA Award

Jeb Bush has been telling the world how former NRA President Charleton Heston acknowledged Bush’s contribution to the cause. “You know who you’re lookin’ at here? You’re looking at the guy who won the NRA Statesman of the Year Award,” Bush proclaimed at a town hall in Milford, New Hampshire. “Not the Florida award. The national award. And I got a rifle from Charlton Heston, I got a rifle from Moses.” Just this weekend, Jeb mentioned the Award again while talking about his record on the Second Amendment. There’s one problem with the story . . . It’s not ture. Buzzed searched the Interwebz and found that the words “Statesman of the Year” in conjunction with Jeb only returned stories from…

Building the Perfect SCAR 17

Every gun in my collection has a purpose. I start with a concept of what I want the gun to do and then I build something that is absolutely perfect for that role. Last year I finished off my ideal 300 AAC Blackout build with a new Noveske upper, but there’s something else I’ve been working on for hunting season that is on the other end of the 30 caliber spectrum. Not only is it quite possibly the perfect hunting rifle for anything under 500 yards, but it’s proof that even an ugly duckling like the SCAR 17 can evolve into a beautiful swan given the right mofications . . . There’s little debate about the aesthetics of the original SCAR series of rifles. It just looks like an absolute trainwreck of…